Yahwehsaid to Joshua, "Don't be afraid, neither be dismayed. Take all the people of war with you, and arise, go up to Ai. Behold, I havegivenintoyourhand the king of Ai, with his people, his city, and his land.

It happened, when the king of Ai saw it, thattheyhurried and rose up early, and the men of the citywent out againstIsrael to battle, he and all his people, at the timeappointed, before the Arabah; but he didn'tknowthatthere was an ambushagainst him behind the city.

When the men of Ai lookedbehindthem, they saw, and behold, the smoke of the cityascended up to heaven, and they had no power to fleethis way or that way. The people who fled to the wildernessturnedback on the pursuers.

It happened, whenIsrael had made an end of killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness in whichtheypursuedthem, and they had all fallen by the edge of the sword, untiltheywereconsumed, that all Israelreturned to Ai, and struck it with the edge of the sword.

He hanged the king of Ai on a treeuntil the evening, and at the sundownJoshuacommanded, and theytook his bodydownfrom the tree, and threw it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised a greatheap of stones on it thatremains to this day.

as Moses the servant of Yahwehcommanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of uncutstones, on which no man had lifted up any iron. Theyofferedburntofferings on it to Yahweh, and sacrificedpeaceofferings.

All Israel, and theirelders and officers, and theirjudges, stood on thisside of the ark and on thatsidebefore the priests the Levites, who carried the ark of Yahweh'scovenant, the foreigner as well as the native; half of them in front of MountGerizim, and half of them in front of MountEbal, as Moses the servant of Yahweh had commanded at the first, thattheyshouldbless the people of Israel.